PRAGUE (Reuters) -The Czech Republic’s populist ANO party on Wednesday proposed appointing to cabinet a right-wing eurosceptic who has been criticised for performing a Nazi salute, complicating efforts to form a government after last month’s election.

ANO, led by billionaire Andrej Babis, won the most votes in an October election and has been trying to form a cabinet with the far-right, anti-EU and pro-Russian SPD party and the right-wing eurosceptic Motorists party.

Babis on Wednesday submitted a list of nominees to President Petr Pavel that included Filip Turek of the Motorists party, who has said the Nazi salute and posting Nazi memorabilia was down to bad humour rather than any affinity to Nazism or racism.

He has also disputed the authenticity of some old social media posts that we

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